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Marburyw Correction to my comment: A 3-pound bag of mandarins is $6.99/per bag at Foodtown.
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Andy it’s neither. It’s been an ongoing issue and is a problem. However, I think the larger problem is for small businesses who use eggs. A 5 dozen case was $13-$19 in 2019. Now a case runs around $85. I personally haven’t bought eggs in months (no need), but I work for a small business who relies on them. They’re absolutely struggling and prices have been increased to reflect that.
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Conservatives might decry this as overreach, but the non-competes I've come across are as ludicrous as the ones cited in the Prudential case which brought this to the FTC. There, a security guard who was paid close to minimum wage couldn't work for any other security company within a 100 mile radius.For me, it was a non-solicit that covered anybody who had ever even expressed interest in the firm I worked at, which included a visit to their website (if they could match e-mail addresses). And it included ANYONE in the family - including extended family - of a website visitor.So if you were shopping for services and visited this company's website, and I later solicited business from you, I was exposed. Ban these things.
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Somebody needs to reign in the practices of booking sites that filter bad reviews for the property owners!A few years ago I reviewed a hotel I stayed at when traveling to Tacoma, WA for a concert…I express several fire-safety concerns – the TV, fridge, microwave ALL plugged into a *single* lightweight extension cord plugged into the desk lamp; and another extension cord run *behind* carpeted baseboard!I also noted that staff was repeatedly using (store-bought) stops holding open the stairwell exit doors. I kept stealing them, and they kept replacing them!My review was *rejected* because it “Didn’t meet community and/or site standards.” 🫤Apparently, the fire safety of guest isn’t all that important! 😖BTW… The Smokey Robinson concert was amazing! 😀
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Michael We bought an induction single burner that plugs into a wall socket and sits on a countertop. It's nice: it's fast and since it's a single burner (is that even the correct word for an induction cooktop?), you can put it away when not in use. It was $116 on amazon by a company named Duxtop. As for your pans, first test what cookware you have by seeing if a fridge magnet sticks. If it does, you're in business. If not, then, start with one induction non-stick pan like we did and work your way up.
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How much could a banana cost, 10 dollars?
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Nothing new here. Stud athletes have driven nice rides for years. As Jimbo Fisher noted in his Saban dust up, it's simply all out in the open now. Almost all. The student-athlete charade. College teams are the minor leagues for the NFL and NBA and play action figures for foundations and athletic departments. Admit it publicly, employ the players and assign contracts to the pros for cash. Everyone wins.
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Tom Suozzi represents the traditional model of politics in which a candidate gains trust as he or she moves up the food chain. Some start as school board members or city council persons. Donald Trump and George Santos bypassed all the pre-requisites with lies so bold and brazen that otherwise sensible people swallowed them whole. If lies are more effective than truth and more profitable, then people like Trump, Santos and Madoff will tell them. Promise the voters that you are going to build a $27 billion wall across our southern border and that Mexico will pay for it. Then, just tell the American people that you did build the wall. They'll believe you! Mission accomplished! Republicans are right. We don't live in democracy. We live in an Idiocracy.
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What if we assure Zuckerberg that we’ll start a Go Fund Me effort to raise funds for Meta if he keeps Trump off the platform; willl that work? How about a bake sale for Meta? A car wash? Magazine drive?Wow, the high and mighty and the tech titans are really just as flawed and phony as Trump. They deserve one-another.
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I agree with the comments on the GOP's reducing taxes for the wealthy and how 30 years of that has brought us to where we are. Corporations and wealthy individuals should pay a minimum tax of (lets just say) 15%. Also the $850 billion defense budget needs a serious review. There is tons of waste there. I'd say a 20% cut with no impact to our national defense posture. But the problem is, big donors and major corporations have captured the legislative branch of government. So major changes to the status quo are just about impossible.
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I love how "hit a rough patch" means the companies are making a few hundred million dollars less in their billions in annual profit (not revenue...PROFIT). If a company stops being profitable, then layoffs are warranted, but laying off more than 10,000 employees to make up for less than 1/3 of a CEO's salary...it's ridiculous. And guess what...the media says most are finding jobs within 3 months. Many of the same companies that are laying off people are still hiring. Has anyone done research to see if they are laying off higher-paid employees to bring on cheaper ones? How much institutional knowledge is being lost due to these layoffs? Hopefully all these employees remembered to do their documentation.
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A quarter billion in bond is a massive sum, his parents are not covering the bulk of that. Considering the fact that the public was greatly defrauded by his actions there would seem to be immense public interest in those bankrolling his freedom.
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The Windsor Firm served up Harry to the public when he was sowing his wild oats. William did stuff too, but the Firm protected him because he is the heir. Now, there are rumors that all is not well between William and Kate, so the Firm serves up Harry and Meghan hate or uses William's and Kate's children as a distraction. The truth will out. It always does.The media concentrates on the family rift while Harry and Meghan are doing so much more. Meghan won a People's Choice award for her podcast on female stereotypes. Harry is active with an organization for children whose parents have died. He was one of them. Their documentary series on Netflix "Live to Lead" tells inspirational stories about people making a difference in the world. They partner with worthwhile organizations through their Archewell Foundation.The journalism around this couple both in the United States and in the UK does not report on what they are doing with their lives that has nothing to do with the British Royal Family. I say good on Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Yes, keep the titles because they were a gift from the Queen, and she never took them back.) I wish them nothing but the best.
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Mary Not everyone went to private schools or were from upper class/caste. I came here from India to US in the 80's and my family was middle class. I went to public schools, but managed to get into IIT (by preparing for the entrance exams by myself). And that opened up possibilities of coming to US as a grad student with full scholarship/tuition waiver. I borrowed money for the flight/initial expenses but quickly paid it back. There were many other of my classmates similar to my story. It is such a broad mischaracterization to say we were all privileged.
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“What [Durham] did manage to do, however, was spread a lot of confusion and waste a lot of time. Now the Republican House picks up where he left off.”And waste a lot of taxpayer money, probably much more than Ken Star’s paltry $40 million.
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Bobby We offer decent support for parents with kids (i.e. paid parental leave) up here in Canada, and I can guarantee you that it isn't much better. In large cities like Toronto or Vancouver (and its surrounding suburbs), homes are still in the 1M (Canadian dollars) mark or above. Unless you want an 800 square foot condo, of course (okay, a townhouse is probably in the $800K CDN mark if you look hard enough, but some people want more indoor and outdoor space).
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Need I remind you that right now in the Republican held House of Representatives there are secret agreements wrought by McCarthy in order to gain power. While there is denial that a document exists what about the promises made to get that gavel? We are going to spend a a lot of time looking for sun in the current House.Do you really think the $400,000 and up households are talking about the price of eggs? I think they are talking about car dealers asking for holding fees plus full sticker price or the controversial move of restaurants automatically adding a tip for staff. Concerns such as these seem to be discussed (in media at least) much more than the price of eggs.
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Brooklyn Mike I have a Chevy Bolt on order. After incentives it's going to be mid 20's. That includes all the bells and whistles.If I went with the entry level model (which is still decently equipped), with incentives it could have started around $26K and ended at somewhere around $18K.New. Full 36K car warranty, 8 year/100K battery warranty.
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Democratic leadership should end its closed primary rules in states where those exist and move to a hybrid primary, where independents can join with Democrats to select the Democratic candidate for the November general election. "Should" means something like a good idea, and positive. But many in the Democratic leadership are behind the times, and not so smart. In fact, many Democratic leaders are more interested in power than democracy, more interested in a narrow focus of social issues, and asleep at the wheel. I would mention Ranked Choice Voting as a positive move towards more democracy and move election wins, but many Democratic leaders are behind the times and and locked into a losing position. In many states, more than 30% of the voters are registered as independents. Leaving them out in the cold in primaries doesn't win any significant support in the November general election. While RCV would be even more positive for Democrats, Democratic leadership has a recent history of being all talk and no smart action on issues like hybrid primaries (open primaries), RCV, independent redistricting commissions, or competition between Democrats. As with many issues, Democrat leaders do not agree with the adage "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." They would rather lose. They would rather focus almost exclusively on a few social issues and then wonder why the election didn't come out they way they expected. We need new Democrat leaders!!!!
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Catman Bill So big money interests decided that Obama and Biden were elected as well, right? Those campaigns (and Hillary) out raised and out spent their Republican rivals. And not, those donations weren't just a bunch of $20 donations from regular people.
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Rapscallian.Based on your comment, I would be willing to wager $1 that you have never actually used ChatGPT at all (or certainly not to any meaningful extent). As a Ph.D. psychologist, I’ve had it write full-length research articles including full academic/professional citations that would absolutely be accepted in any prominent peer reviewed journal in our field.
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They will welcome Vlad with open arms
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Labienus If Harry is no longer being supported by royal funds, then they have to make fast money to survive and nothing will do this better then tell-all books/films. Ones that put the couple in a sympathetic light also help them build a "sellable" image that will open up more projects for them going forward. Quietly fading away won't bring in any income which they most likely need.
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Mark DiF: I agree. Real regret would be if he had informed relevant authorities on his own initiative. Instead AOC:s open-ended questioning of Michael Cohen brought Weisselberg down. (If Weisselberg watched the feed live, his hair must have stood up, haha.)What he regrets now is only getting caught.
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Prof. Tufekci has obviously chosen to support poor Harry and Meghan against the terrible Royal Family, especially Camilla whose estate adjoins that of Piers Morgan. (For someone not interested in celebrities, Prof. Tufekci is certainly well-informed!) I quite agree that Harry and Meghan should call for the abolition of the British monarchy which is in cahoots with the racist tabloids. Oh wait, H and M don't want to renounce their titles or abolish the monarchy because then their media empire based on their victimization by King Charlie, Camilla, Prince Willy and Kate would lose its raison d'être. H and M just want the Royal Family to apologize and beg for forgiveness. Of course, H and M obviously have nothing to apologize for themselves because they are great victims. We know this because they have monetized their victimhood to the tune of 100 million dollars and counting!
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Between recent revelations that NYC yeshivas actually don’t teach anything except religion and basically stole more than $1 billion to fund no show jobs and parties and this revelation about Yeshiva University it seems that the entire Orthodox “educational” system is a scam. Elected officials in New York State need to stop supporting this community because they vote as a bloc.
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They’re still hoarding technical talent. As a recruiter in tech, who has been laid off more than once, the first thing to go is not your Engineers, Product Managers or Data Scientists.Every 10 years or so, the tech industry makes big bets that don’t pan out (late 90s with risky equity structures, 2022 with big bets on permanent changes in consumer and business behavior), or faces outside market forces even it can’t isolate from (early 2000s from Sept 11th attacks, 2010 from the housing market crash, and also 2022 due to pandemic). What’s problematic is the continuedirresponsible spending by inexperienced founders, CEOs and VCs letting them do it all for the sake of “growth and exits.” Spending tons of money on perks, events, not paying attention to contracts duplication (why do you need Zoom if you use Gsuite and have Google Meets bundled in for free? Why do different teams use Asana and Trello and JIRA at the same time?), burning through capital to hire expensive talent, acquire companies and build moonshots. VCs haven’t been forcing their founders to focus on profitability and companies have lost sight of being scrappy. Now, every board is forcing companies to come up with a profitability plan and we have a harsh over correction. Let’s hope it’s the new norm so that companies grow and hire responsible. If we know every 10 years there is going to be some type of shift or pivot needed, then operating principles need to change.
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This is sickening on so many levels. What's the point of the $2,900 individual limit if the system is so easily gamed by LLCs and so called 'social welfare' organizations? I only took two semesters of business law as an undergrad but what did the Supreme Court expect would happen when it equated money with speech?
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The GDP rose 9.7% in Trump's first 2 years. 6.7% for Biden. Trump didn't deplete our strategic petro reserves or precipitate crippling interest rates, Biden did. We didn't experience a 40-year inflation high with Trump. If not for raiding the strategic petro reserves, we would still have Biden's inflation. Real wages rose under Trump, they are falling under Biden. No tech is not cyclical, Biden crashed it. The S&P dumped 18% last year, 25% if you factor in inflation. Unemployment reached 3.5% under Trump. Much of the 4.5 million jobs, were due to easing of Covid restrictions. And Biden is still doling out gifts to supporters at tax-payer expense viz The Teamster Pension bailout.. we will have to pay that tab. No one bailed out my pension. Medicare is due to be insolvent on 2028. Social Security 2035. Where is Biden's plan for that?What kind of noise would Democrats make if Trump tried to end the public health emergency with Americans dying of COVID at a rate of 200,000 a year? The Biden admin is a train wreck. That's not perception. That's reality and any one paying attention notices
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Bluhorizons At something close to $10M plus per mile plus maintaince (and that is conservative) it is ineffective. <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/trump-border-wall-ladders" target="_blank">https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/trump-border-wall-ladders</a>/
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"Maybe two air purifiers"?So I'm going to have to spend $300-400 so that someone can stink up all adjacent units?This is partly why over 300,000 New Yorkers have left the city.Between blasting noise from car and home sound systems, the stench of pot, raucous yelling on street corners and from neighboring apartments -- in general, ill manners and lack of self-control on the part of a good-sized and growing portion of our population -- the city is becoming unlivable.People, just because you feel like doing something doesn't mean it's right to do.
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A few months ago I booked an excursion with the travel company Viator through my Chase credit card in Athens, Greece. A week before my trip I was not provided a pick-up time, so I called/emailed/left messages with both Chase and Viator multiple times to confirm. No one ever provided me with an answer. I was left on hold for two hours the morning of the scheduled excursion with Chase, who could not get a hold of the travel company. My start time came and went while I was on the line, so I missed the excursion all together. All my calls were recorded, and I had email proof of my many attempts to contact all parties involved. I thought I should have no problem getting my points back. Neither company would accept fault, even though Chase admitted several times this was not MY fault. They kept giving me the run around, saying they'd get back to me (never did). After weeks of calling Chase, being on hold for up to 6 hours at a time for multiple days, I finally gave up as my time is more valuable than the ~$230 I lost. I'm happy these people finally got a refund, but the fact that the consumer is made to jump through hoops for obvious errors of these billion dollar companies is ridiculous and sad.
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Tom Kushner received billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia. No investigation?
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MXMitchell Great point.Large hospitals and nursing unions should be opening up their own nursing programs.They know the body of knowledge and have a vested interest in developing more skilled nurses.For a hospital system it could be as simple as a 4 year commitment in exchange for the education.For the union, it would gain more membership. Many technical trades already do this.
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Alternate Identity If you have an advanced engineering degree and a good job in California, you can definitely afford a $1.3M house. $260k down-payment and $5000 monthly payments is not a stretch. If the down-payment is a barrier, you can get a 90% mortgage and shrink your upfront requirements.
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NG - 'Spending' by government is very often 'investment' in things like infrastructure, education, or science/research, which the private sector can't/won't support. If the all-knowing invisible hand of the private sector worked so efficiently, there wouldn't have been the mass sign-up of millions upon millions of Americans who needed health insurance, but could only get it under Obamacare, instead of the private sector having already tapped that obviously under-served market. The same is true of bridges, highways, schools, in almost all 3,000+ counties in this country. Billionaire$ and Trillionaire$ are investing in space tourism and how to mine the moon, instead of the infrastructure investment which pays Americans dividends by juicing our GDP.
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As somebody who has nothing much good to say about de Santis's economic agenda, people will underestimate him if they dismiss his "anti-wokeism" as a side show. As someone in academics who has experience woke at its worst - I was "Title-IXed" by a vengeful student who blamed me for his inability to get into medical school - I can assure you that it is no side show. Many of the power levers of academic life now rest in the hands of woke administrators and militant students. Need I even say that these levers of power extend to all aspects of American intellectual life as "élite opinion" is being shaped largely by academics. Even if administrators are not explicitly woke, they are frightened of and in thrall to those who are. Just look at the recent Hamline U saga for a crash primer course. I'm not sure that de Santis's anti-woke initiatives will do anything. But to many people at least he presents a symbol of "fighting back" against this pernicious ideology.
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robert At a philosophical level, you have a valid argument. When we get into the details, we see that 20 Representatives are holding 200 Republican Representatives - and by extension the goverment - hostage for concessions, when they haven't put forward a reasonable replacement Speaker. That is, they exposed the problem, but they haven't offered a solution.Our elected should be about solving problems. The Republicans aren't interested in governance. They are nihilists.
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Telephone call. Your copay assistance ran out of money for prostate cancer. That fund, the Assistance Fund, gets its money from Big Pharma. The change on Wednesday of this week has me at $3,000 a month for my two drugs that are keeping me alive. One of them bills out at $15,000 a month. Like Eero below. I'm lucky because I can afford this, but to do it I'm drawing money from a rolled over IRA. That means less money over the course of my life. So it goes like this. Sure we can keep you alive. But. We'll take the money you need to live a long life to do it. Which do you prefer? Life now or poverty later? In the wealthiest country on earth this is a decision no one should have to make. Ever.
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JoeA 100% correct. So if you thought about "trading in" your used electric vehicle... fuggheaboutit! An electric vehicle with a non-functioning battery is worth close to $0. The only value will be in cannibalizing any parts for similar models.
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My Nissan LEAF is charged from my roof, the investment of which was paid back in about six years. I have not paid for any electricity, gas, oil changes, belts, spark plugs, etc in a decade. Every morning I have about 240 miles ready to go on that zippy fun-to-drive car. I have charged away from home only a handful of times.As to Lithium: you mine it once and your battery is good for at least a decade or possibly longer, then it is recyclable. Petroleum needs to be pumped up all the time—either by large greedy corporations or by questionable political regimes on the other side of the planet. Schedule a test drive but be careful—you’ll be an instant convert!
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Vestigial One The massive number "boomer" retirements coupled with the increasing ability of persons from the north and central US to be able to relocate to regions of the country for warmer climates and coastal states (of which Florida is one), has had a considerable effect on the overall distribution of Federal funds in our economy. Those retirees that are relocating are bringing with them, not just their savings, but their Medicare and Social Security benefits as well. These are all monies that were paid into the Federal coffers by employers (often public employers and by local taxes), employees, businesses, and individuals from the taxes and economies they participated in while working. These funds, therefore, end up not being redistributed back into those same economies upon their retirement. As a result, we see some states able to maintain lower taxes and are greater beneficiaries of Federal spending by virtue of receiving far more in Federal revenue disbursements (of which Social Security and Medicare comprise the majority) relative to that which they pay in. I don't think this geographic shift was ever considered when the large retirement programs such as Social Security and Medicare were initiated.
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To be very clear, being anti-abortion is not being "pro-life." Quite the opposite it turns out. Please consider that it took 200,000 years for our kind to reach a global population of 1 billion, only 170 years from there to reach 4 billion, and astonishingly, only 47 years to surpass 8 billion. We can accommodate 8 billion solely because of the vast number who live near, at, or below the poverty line of $1.90 (US) a day. Unfortunately, 30% of us already suffer severe or extreme water shortage at least one-month a year. In America, 46 states chronically experience this level of shortage. Water wars are already festering - Scottsdale, AZ recently shut off water to the Rio Verde Foothills suburb - and the issue is speedily widening. On top of this, Republicans have chosen this moment to push for every impregnated child or woman to birth more and more human beings, regardless of their economic, physical, or emotional ability to to mother a child. THIS is child abuse and a cruel, unjust penalty against women for which the rest of us are stuck footing the bill.In the bigger picture, the juxtaposition of a spreading, deepening water crisis against out-of-control overpopulation spells ugly times ahead. VERY ugly times... unless we do an immediate about-face and reduce our population. Sadly, this isn't likely while the whims of one religious sect have eroded the separation between church and state.
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When only the "essential" businesses in the US and elsewhere were allowed to be open during the pandemic, it was clear to me that most jobs, services, and businesses are pretty inessential. Human beings used to be involved in essential work. We made crafts with our hands, farmed land, and sold essential goods. I think it's difficult on a deep level to put your heart and body into modern businesses that are basically useless. Inessential. It was kind of a shock to see how much of what we do as humans for work these days is not essential to life. I think that's a major human need: to do something with real meaning in the world. When you're toiling away to make little parts for machinery I'm not sure how you sink your life into that endeavor, like so many others. If those toiling away were making little parts that helped people maybe the turn over wouldn't be so rampant every where. It's difficult to pour the vast human potential into useless things.
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Note to Republicans: TAX CUTS = SPENDINGThe IRS estimates that $600 billion in tax revenue remains uncollected because it is without the resources to collect it.So, reverse the GOP tax cuts and fund the IRS so it can collect what it is owed under the law. After that, let's see if there is still a problem.
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"But over the past few years, there has been a frenzy of home construction in the area, fueled by cheap land prices and developers who took advantage of a loophole in Arizona’s groundwater laws to construct homes without any fixed water supply." How people can venture into areas and not do the due diligence to make an important decision with eyes wide open to the realities they face is mind boggling. In the long run what they are facing now provides leading indication to what a much larger percentage Arizona residents will face in the 21st Century.
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Liz Ken Roth takes in millions of dollars in donations from the anti-Israel crowd and was criticized by the founder of Human Rights Watch for degrading the institutions mission with his clear bias against Israel. Many consider him to be an antisemite. Hardly a “pillar.”
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Allow me to add my two cents to this discussion. I have driven for Uber (and Lyft until they stole money from me) for almost seven years. It has allowed me to return to school to study nursing, while paying my rent, bills, car, food, etc. Why do I do so well? Maybe because I drive in California where we are guaranteed a minimum wage (which, if your not making at least double that, your doing something wrong) and am given a quarterly health insurance stipend depending on the number of hours I average per week. I drive when I can and when I want. I get to meet some truly fascinating people and have had some of the most eye-opening conversations of my life. So, why do I succeed where others fail? Because I treat this gig like it's my own business. I don't wait for people to give me things because I fully understood what I was getting myself into when I signed the TOS. Not only that, but there are so many other side hustles that when it's slow with Uber, I can hop on any number of other apps to generate money. But what I won't do is wallow in misery about the state of my affairs. I'm sorry but if you have four children and your not making enough money, learn another skill or get a job at a company that provides all these things you keep agitating for. The Gig Economy came long after the labor laws we use from the 1930s. Stop blaming Uber and Lyft for your predicament. As another reader mentioned, this was never meant to be a full-time job.
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Eric B Wordle 563 3/6*⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 87 words left🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 1 word left🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 — words leftI had come up with two choices for the second word—one that I've used before in this situation and one more, which I've never used. That was the one I went with, although I now realize that in using it to try a yellow letter in two places, the opener had already ruled one of those places out, A small oversight.In the end it was the better choice, this time anyway, since it was off by only one letter from the solution. The other word—also the bot's choice—would have led to the solution in three as well, but not as plainly. Strategically, that word was the better choice, if you play the percentages. I'll remember that next time.Yesterday's words:STARE 6 words leftSKIRT — words leftLeft with the S, R, & T, the first word that came to mind was SPURT, a possible solution, but one that seemed too wacky to be right. The sound of it gave me SKIRT, which seemed like a feminine counterpoint to the masculine choice of two days earlier.Had I taken the time and thought about it, I would have played SHORT, a better candidate among the six possible answers, and the bot's choice as well. But that would have meant a solve in four instead of two.Congratulations in advance to all who solve. Hopefully the three-bees will be out in force.
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Meta reinstated Trump for the same reason Twitter did. Both entities are struggling mightily and praying that a figure who will type anything for ratings will help these entities with the same which will, in turn, help them generate revenue. The lack of trust they have created, however, will make this a challenge. While not active on either platform, I’ve occasionally opened accounts under my dogs names when I need access to specific information housed on either. These accounts then lay dormant and I hear nothing from the services. Recently, I’ve been getting nightly messages for my dogs’ accounts attempting to get me/them to re-engage/bark. I delete the text and get a new notification the next night. If these services are so desperate for engagement that they are spamming my dogs, than they need more than Trump to make them relevant again.
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Something similar happened to me some 5 years ago or so. My wife and I took Amtrak first class coast to coast to go on a Caribbean cruise. I don’t fly, so that is why we took the train. We were 15 minutes late into Chicago, but our connecting train left anyway. We had to get to Florida by next afternoon or loose every penny invested.....which including train fare was big $$.At Chicago they couldn’t or wouldn’t find us a way to get to DC to make our next connection, even though we were in one of the largest train hubs in the country. It took me literally screaming at them for an hour to get us on a Greyhound to DC. And then we had to walk through downtown Chicago with all of our luggage to get to the forlorn bus station. So much for first class.Anyway we did finally get there in time, and Greyhound was the most efficient leg of the trip. Quite revealing that was.
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Great news, but “10-15 years before it’s available?”Don some speedos. Speed is needed. It’s great to have the majority of big brand automakers investing into EV. So glad there are better options other than Right Wing Tesla. I cancelled my Maga Model Y. Overpriced, subpar fit/finish, plastic seats, faulty FSD Autopilot & phantom braking.
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Bret, do you think all older people are healthy and able to work to 70? Why do Republicans always cater to the rich and go after the little guys? Maybe people who are financially secure should give up their Social Security. Let's be generous and say all people who are worth over 5 million dollars. No social security for them.
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Will they insist we adopt paternity leave, blended families and the ideology of open marriage and government subsidized higher education?
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Gigi As we've seen with Putin's Russia, a former great power in undeniable demographics-induced free fall, countries that feel their windows are limited are more aggressive. Japan in the 1930s, too. Contrary to popular belief (and publicly released numbers), China is spending a ridiculous amount on its military. The scale of its ship building and advances in missile technology should alarm everyone
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Okay first off let's talk about the new COVID vaccine - which perhaps saved more lives than the entire medical industry with all its advances to date combined. So there is that.As someone who worked in a STEM field for 10 years (NASA) I can tell you what I figured out. 1. To get anywhere in the world of science, you really need to have an advanced degree, if not a doctorate. Have you looked at the cost of college these days? The cost of obtaining a bachelors, masters and doctorate today is astronomical (and I know a think about astronomy)2. Have you looked at what a science degree pays. PhDs in Chemistry make $100k. Physics maybe $150-175k. What does a starting developer with an undergrad make? $120-140k Or how much does a MBA at a top college make right out of school? $175k If you are looking to get a payback on your effort, why would anyone want to incur the time and debt to get a PhD in science and then make far less than people in less difficult degrees. Who employees more math majors? Science programs/companies or the banking industry. Which one pays better?3. How many companies can afford basic research? Not many. How much does the government put into basic research - and how much do we think that a Congress with so many constituents who believe that detergent would make a better cure for a virus than a vaccine? 4. As father of 2 high schoolers - and someone who attended a good public school myself - science education in US is terrible. No critical thinking
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Minneapolis Mom there is no evidence of that, in fact the PPI has been consistently 2 points ahead of the CPI, in what you state is true, that would not be the case. The ‘17 tax reform is $2.1 trillion over 10 years, which is $210 billion per year. Which pales in comparison to the Biden spend. C-corps are taxed twice, cutting the rate was long overdue, all other companies pay the personal rate, just as you do. Furthermore, corporate tax revenue has increased substantially with the rate cut. Overall treasury revenue has increased from $4.09 trillion to $4.9 trillion last year. The $10k SALT cap that the Dems wanted to repeal brings in $85 billion a year. Most people are misinformed when it comes to the tax code, and yes it is complex and compliance is very costly.
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Scott Obviously you guys haven't done the math.China and India have 1.4 billion people each.That is 2.8 billion people or 2.8 x 10^9.Said another way 2.8 thousand million.Italy has a population of 59 million. So Italy's population is 2% of China and India.If you wanted to stem global population growth, wouldn't it be more effective to say every country should cut their poulation by 1% rather than have the population of a few countries wiped out while the others continue increasing? For example, just checking the data on India's growth (worlddata.info) : From 1960 to 2021 the population of India increased from 450.55 million to 1.41 billion people. This is a growth of almost a billion people or 212.4 percent in 61 years.On the other hand from 1960 to 2021 the population of Italy increased from 49 million to 59 million. This is a growth of 10 million.
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"It seems very hard for any admirer of Benedict to look at the events that followed his resignation and see a vindication of his decision to retire, a simple working out of the Holy Spirit’s will."Seems to me an expression of a profound lack of faith. Who, after all, are we, Mr. Douthat, to judge or question what is and what isn't a "working out of the Holy Spirit's will"? If all is an expression of God's will, then the current "open theological division" that Mr. Douthat sees manifest within the Church, must be as well.Peace upon you.
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If anything, they should put more funding into the libraries for longer hours and more resources. Libraries should be open until 11 pm everyday so that high school and community college students can really use them as resources. Many high school libraries are completely useless - sometimes the students don’t really have all that much access to them because of so many schools in one building sharing a library and often the libraries don’t really have enough good material for research. It’s the kind of investment that pays back large dividends. The community center aspect of libraries is important, but the central role of intellectual development and growth should be prioritized and valued. In nyc our library system could really support scholarly research for all grade levels and it should. But if you start treating this valuable resource like a coffee shop and event space, then it’s really no wonder that some politicians see it as an easy way to make up budget shortfalls.
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I worked in a Borders for over 10 years, until the very last day we were open. I loved that job -- which was post-career for me -- and was so very grateful for the diverse group of ``book nerds'' who worked with me. We are still family to each other and keep in touch and I frequently run across people -- usually in a library or a grocery store -- who recognize me and stop me to say how much they still miss our store and how wonderful it was to shop there. There's something almost miraculous about a good book store, where you're surrounded by the opportunity to enter a new world everywhere you turn. I'm very happy that B&N has had a turnaround. Everything I've read indicates that it's run by a real ``books person'' and individual store managers are able to do what works for their customers, rather than having to follow mandates from on high, handed down by people who don't have a clue that the book business isn't like other merchandising. Borders management made many mistakes, as we peons in the store wanted to tell them, and a wonderful books community was forced into bankruptcy. Thank heaven B&N seems to have avoided that fate!
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“The association’s advocacy work keeps restaurants open; it keeps workers employed, it finds pathways for worker opportunity, and it keeps our communities healthy,” Ms. Korsmo wrote. "If this were true, then the places that have a $15.00 minimum wage would be ghost towns, yet we find that after a transition period, they have more restaurants than ever, except for the impacts of covid, which hit the places with low minimum wages as well.
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John Dirlik The US did spend many billions of dollars helping the Iraqis rebuild the mess Al-Qaedi left their country in (after its sectarian "insurgency"... the damage for which was not caused by the US at all).Syria was destroyed by Assad and Russia. It was the Russian Air Force that was "barrel-bombing" innocent civilians in Aleppo and elsewhere. So if you're looking for repayment there, you'd want to take your complaints up with the Kremlin.And Libya? Really? Now you're just stretching....
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Some years ago when our personal offices had been eliminated and we were dumped onto a huge open floor full of young people who equated employment with opportunities to mingle, I negotiated a deal whereby I could work from home two days per week, literally for my health. This permitted me to concentrate and get my work as a senior legal editor for New York's premiere legal publisher completed in a timely manner. A year after I endured a badly botched knee replacement surgery and prior to my locating an orthopedic surgeon who could diagnose and eventually redo the surgery to restore some of my lost mobility (and when I was painfully traveling into work one day a week with the consent of the new head of the department), a VP of the company let slip that he was surprised I was only at the office one day a week although my work was always up to date. Within two weeks I was ambushed and summarily laid off by an unfamiliar HR person and given an hour to clear out. My medical coverage terminated a week later and had to be quickly dealt with. None of my responsible supervisors had the decency to be present or say a word to me. And this after sixteen (16) years of exceptionally professional work with very good feedback from nationally known legal practitioner/authors. This was a devastating experience, and embittered me permanently. I retained counsel and eventually negotiated a severance payment of many times that originally offered. The cruelty was wholly unnecessary.
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This war, like many, is a complex sordid, tragic web of conflict, history, imperialism, ego mania and self defense. One can easily be misled down a presumptuous path if we don't strive to take a look at the big picture. Rather than try to suggest what the best, specific path forward is, I would like to remind us of a factor that gets neglected:The reality of the industrial military complex. Many, many trillions of dollars are spent the world over and a relative few profit very handsomely from these expenditures. In the US companies are often awarded non bid contracts. Money is power. A prominent component of the MIC is a very effective propaganda machine that promotes spending on military related businesses and persuades its peoples that such expenditures are necessary. This framework exists in virtually all societies. Putin was born into modest means: his father was a sailor, his mother a factory worker. Yet today his personal net worth is north of 100 billion (according to the NYT). How did this happen? My understanding is he personally profits from Russia being at war. He may very well have deluded, insecure dreams of putting the Soviet Union back together again and becoming the world's most powerful person but do not overlook the lure of money as an underlying driver of things. While we are at it, we must always be on guard against our own propaganda and MIC. Money talks and people listen and believe...
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Remind me please how closing stores, firing long-time employees, and paying massive bonuses to private equity billionaires is going to be good for those employees? And setting up the deal so Cerberus (The guys who drove Chrysler into bankruptcy) gets paid no matter what…? And yep, I’m sure they really are thinking about what is “good for the consumer.”If the PE guys spent as much time figuring out how to actually do Good as they do getting their billions out, the world would be a better place.
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This truly was a wonderful man who did wonderful things. But the question I raise is why did the EpiPen, which before 2007 cost around $50, get so expensive? We know the answer, yet this kind of corporate greed continues to cost people's lives.
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“(Unfortunately, for the sake of accuracy, this will mean spending more money on tests.)”Aleays the goal. In Germany test cost E1.00.
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Tracy Kidder has an uncanny ability to find and portray saints among us. Credible saints. For one, the late Dr. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health, in "Mountains Beyond Mountains." And here, 20 years later, "Doctah Jim" O'Connell. Doctor Jim first learns to listen to the homeless from women who tend to them, women who make clear their strong doubts that he can put aside the privilege of his education in order to help. But he proves them wrong by serving his internship, poignantly depicted by Kidder, literally at feet of the homeless, treating those worn feet for months. That passage will stay with me forever. Listening, or hearing and understanding, depends on humility and that seems from Kidder's portrait, the root of Dr. Jim's great strength and success. A message for our times. And a message that also seems reflected in the many memorable portrait photos of Dr. Jim's patients, only one of which includes him and then only at a side angle.
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But it’s a ridiculous question. She’s not getting married to insurer brother. And her family doesn’t get a say in her major life decisions. Should she consider skipping an “engagement ceremony,” whatever that is? (Unless it’s some religious or venerated cultural ritual, one assumes it’s a spotlight grab to extend the Me Time, to be followed by an engagement photo shoot, shower, bachelorette party, rehearsal dinner, bridal suite get-ready photo shoot, day-after brunch, etc etc world without end amen) Yes, yes, a thousand times yes, whether she even had a brother to begin with or not. But especially under the circumstances - sure, skip the crass spotlight grab…but don’t put your whole life on hold just because you think folks might not be able to keep all their focus on you - this whole postponement would actually just be another way to make someone else’s pain all about YOU
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Ok I can understand the need to break away from the RF. Then break away and move on. Burning the house down for financial gain is hard to sympathize with. We all have crazy dysfunctional family members but we don't feel the need to exploit it for a living. Not that he needs it. Harry has 2 trust funds, one from the Queen and one from Diana. One currently pays out $450k a year to Harry and the other is 2 lump sums, one he got in his 20s when he split 8 million with William, and at age 40 when they will split 10 million. And who knows what the King still gives him. Of course, they are woke royalty now, and that pays the big bucks.
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Jo Ann "People have the right to do as they please..."But that's not always true. According to my mom -- and she was right -- a person's right to do whatever they want ends at another person's nose.In other words, your right to do whatever you want is limited when that action would infringe on the rights of others.In US public health, there has always been a tension between individual rights, and the common good. Typically, we compromise.For instance, in most US states, you can smoke all you want in your home and out in the wide open air, but not in any circumstances where others are present. We're okay with those laws because the research and evidence is clear -- second-hand smoke has health impacts. And it's considered fair for people who smoke pay higher insurance premiums to offset their higher medical bills.When it came to helmet safety laws, helmet advocates pointed to the costs borne by society when a helmet-less rider gets hurt. Many states pushed for helmet laws. But later, as organ donations continued to decrease, and motorcycle riders fought to repeal laws requiring helmets, about half the country lost those laws. Motorcycle accident deaths immediately increased in those areas. Guess we decided we're okay with that fact.As far as covid vaccine and mask mandates go, we seem to be okay with our continuing deaths and rates of illness and the long-term effects of this pandemic on our economy. We're paying those costs, in the name of a weird "freedom".
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I would spend 125$ on an omelette.
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Victor Lacca $1.6m is nothing if one is raking in hundreds of millions. They'll just chalk it up as "the cost of doing business", then pay the vig to the house. Shut them down with some serious prison time and make white collar crime not worth the risk.
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Emge $18g could’ve afforded you a home in NYC 80s, even the 90s. I believe you’re exaggerating to make a point and bet you at one point (much more recently) had several roommates, as you passed through the city, allowing landlords to jack up rents with your loose interpretation of a one or two bedroom apartment, and imagine in reality it was a television show, Friends or Sex in the City which made you feel the move here was something you could stomach.
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Financial systems like banking, currency need clear, fair, and robust regulation to avoid the high cost to others of magical thing…AI, Self-driving cars, crypto (well-named) tokens…and other forms of magical thinking can exist, and to a degree always will. So betting, risky investments like start-ups, your loan to your cousin…but here the risk is yours, your potential gain or loss. Sure you could waste a lot of money, and the one ‘big win’ story will keep people coming. But Enron and Madoff hurt people who were lied to, and this crosses what should be a clear line. And the organization of these ‘things’ should be accountable…and calling it block-chain or some other cover story, doesn’t stop people from being responsible…nor people from magical thinking!
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LOL he had $600 million in stock. So much for crypto
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With the discovery of so many planets around so many stars, surely there must be an alien intelligence that is a billion or so years ahead of us.Maybe they hold office hours?Why not broadcast a list of questions -- like what the heck is dark energy that is accelerating the expansion of the universe -- and see what answers come back?We may hear nothing, but it sure wouldn't cost billions of dollars just to ask.
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Brad Stop bringing generational culture war nonsense into discussions like these.The oldest Millenial is now 43 and the youngest 28. The vast majority of S&P 500 company CEOs are over the age of 50. So many of the cultural decisions at companies are not being made by Millenials.It was the Silent generation that institutionalized the American Corporate hierarchy in the 1950s, the Boomer generation popularized the open-concept office in the 1960s and 70s, and both generations wanted pensions for being a lifer at a company. Gen Xers perpetuated and financialized all of those things, replaced pensions with 401Ks, and ended wage increases indefinitely. Millenials began demanding more from their workplaces in the absence of stability and loyalty and unions. The workplace is changing with its workforce as it always has.
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John But we don't want McCarthy, at least not in his current form - he's an enabler of these far right MAGA nut jobs. He will rubber stamp every petty (and irrelevant) investigation of Hunter Biden, the Jan/ 6th Committee, and everything else, a la Benghazi. As things stand nothing will get done anytime this year. Biden will probably have to resort to idiotic sleight of hand with giant platinum coins to prevent the US from being forced into default. It doesn't actually matter whether they choose a speaker tomorrow or it takes six months. In the latter case we will be no worse off than the former. Let McCarthy, jonesing for his power fix, get to the point of being open to a deal with the opposition. Let him get desperate enough - and he isn't yet. If, say, he were open to appointing a few Democratic heads of House committees maybe there'd be something to talk about.
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Microsoft will “refocus on strategic priorities, such as artificial intelligence” so they can put even more people out of work in the the future.
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mshobe The pilot implies direct contact through tendrils. You see the infected neighbor seemingly eating her daughter in the typical "zombie need brains" way, only to reveal she has fungus tendrils coming out of her mouth. From that point, I think you're meant to assume that whenever you see an infected "chewing" on a body, they are trying to spread the disease. Additionally, Ellie shows the scars of a healed wound from 3 weeks prior to prove that she got infected, but is immune. This also implies that direct contact with an open wound will infect. Finally, we see a corpse of an infected that is "done". Joel and Tess aren't worried about being close to it. This implies that there is no danger of airborne transmission (a change from the game as the showrunner realized than an airborne infection for this type of disease would likely give humans 0 chance for survival)
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Maryland, USA Given some of the grey areas in different states, you may be right. But as in my case, a laid off worker may need to hire a lawyer. In NC there are effectively no such thing as non-business employment lawyers - at least the kind that protect employee rights. The only protection an employee has is against discrimination.Non-compete does apply when you are laid off or terminated in many industries.My employer of 22 years fired me in order to steal over $88k in independently verified earnings. They tried to threaten me into signing a non-compete or working for any company/client they had done any business with.Fortunately I had been saving all of my life and could afford to hire a lawyer and an independent CPA to prove the theft and as the highest producing salesperson keeping them in business they had no cause to fire me. Too bad I had relocated from NYC to NC, a right to fire state (aka right to work), allowing employers to commit wage theft and terminate employees to get away with it. They maliciously tried to sabotaged any opportunity to regain a livelihood including "do not poach employee" agreements with many of the companies we worked with that was enforced against me.I refuse to have any part of the for profit for someone else economy or working to pay taxes to a state that protects wage stealing employers. I was fortunate to have saved for a rainy decade so I no longer have to abide by such a cruel and dysfunctional employment system.
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M. Using excess solar energy for desalinization is an interesting idea. But how often is there an excess? Is battery storage or other storage of the excess a better investment? Is the grid built to supply a desalinization plant, and would the investment in grid be better spent on distributing the excess solar to where it is needed? (Part of the problem of "Excess" is simply that the grid does not currently have capacity to deliver the electricity to where it could be used). Desalinization is not necessary the most economical or practical use of the occasional surplus of solar generated electricity.
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With such great educational outcomes, perhaps we should start paying SHOFCO to run our schools - imagine what they could do with the budget we allocate to NYC schools i.e. 32k a year per student!
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We who lived and worked in China could have told Bill Clinton that sponsoring China into the WTO would pay for the greatest military expansion and spy network in history. Is anybody surprised Russia used profits from selling oil to Europe to attack Europeans? Since China joined WTO we have seen the greatest transfer of wealth since 1492. What technology Chinese didn’t steal, your CEOs, and politicians gave away to China — knowing they’d bail out with a golden parachute (before anyone was wiser).
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617to416 No, Brett, that couple making $400k a year is not driving a Camry. Puh-lease.
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I have coded since 1966Autonomous weapons were first used by a US NATO ally on March of 2020 in Libya and are increasingly used in the War in the UkraineA.I . is used in health care for developing new medication and in a clinical setting as a tool for case triage. It supports a clinician reviewing images and scans. Congress should look into it, but if you look a precedents of the US Congress regulating high tech. such as it selling personal data it collects, and compare it to the EU it will fail - againAnd will do so, because it will not, and believe it can not , offend donorsLook up<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/nancy-pelosi/summary?cid=N00007360&cycle=2022&type=C" target="_blank">https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/nancy-pelosi/summary?cid=N00007360&cycle=2022&type=C</a>and you will understand
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The continued push for housing and commercial development is all about tax revenues? How about that real estate, construction, banking, and investment interests pretty much have control of every local, regional and state entity regarding planning and development, because there’s money to be made. California’s supposedly pro-environmentalism is a fraud. When push comes to shove, people win and nature loses. Environmental wins are little victories in a losing war of continual population growth and development.
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Redzepi is hailed as a great chef - but he should really be hailed as a great marketer.s Unsustainable? He's been doing it this way for 20 years. Maybe business is down, maybe as he can't continue to engage slave labor so he needs to find an easy way to significantly raise prices. Because the only point of saying today he's closing in 2 YEARS! is to drive traffic & so the patrons will say what many have said in the comments below - if they pay $500 a person, they'll pay $1000. The truth is what he's really done is help raise the bar so now even upscale pizza joints can charge $35 for a pie. While I have enjoyed many fine dining meals, and appreciate the lux service and quality, I've had so many outstanding meals in mom & pop ethnic restaurants.
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I, for one, don't care if it takes lawmakers three long days to sort out how they will conduct important business for next two years. That is a minor investment and no skin off our noses. It is the pundit class and simpletons who demand neat dramas while hypocritically at the same moment exploit for attention and ratings the "chaos" while clutching their pearls.This article uses McCarthy's campaign for speakership as its impetus to write, while in effect, it is a thoughtful, long due primer on how the House operates based on sclerotic habit and how it could be improved by dynamic agitation and some straight forward adjustments.
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I fear that the republicans will get out the vote and the democrats will wonder what happened. I hope that is not true. Unfortunately; many who live in rural areas (not all) do not want to see a migration of urban folks to the rural areas. They like their comfortable rural lifestyle without the crime and blight of urban life. I know, I have been told while in my canoe paddling on one of their quiet lakes; "We don't want your kind out here." Had I a gun rack in my pick-up or a large power boat towed behind they would have welcomed me with open arms. Wisconsin is an odd State with many Catholics who are told to oppose abortion at all costs (although many disagree.) Many wealthy liberals and LBGTQ+ live in rural areas but support the conservative agenda because it protects their exclusive lifestyles. They vote to maintain the status quo and avoid change. Change is what they fear. They fought against "light rail" and won that battle and sent millions of $ back to the federal gov. The result is to expand a crowded freeway and force many minorities out of their neighborhood to accommodate the rural commute. There is no end in site if a republican wins the judicial position. More gerrymandering and "NO" Abortion rights.
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For many faculty, tenure track and not, working in public higher education is pure burnout. Especially at non flagship schools, the salaries are low and stagnant. Quit? Few academic job openings, student loans, no savings. From administrators: Do More. From legislators, parents, students: Please Me, Just Me. From the public: Be Job Training. From so many loud voices: You are the destruction of religion, destroyer of the young, the tool of socialism and Marxism, a disgrace. Your doctorate, your masters degree, your research and your teaching expertise mean nothing unless it makes lots of wealth, for our kids or us. Education does not matter. Burnout.
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Serving as a board certified critical care hospital chaplain for many years, having a patient code at least twice for almost 10 minutes (as publicly reported) and now be weaned off the vent, alert times 3 and talking—is, indeed, a most remarkable and promising recovery! Yes, being a fit 24 year old is key—having immediate first class care does unlock the best resources—but in my experience, the emotional and spiritual support surrounding this young man, as well as his own physical and spiritual strength and resilience is a manifest witness which, although cannot be measured clinically, nonetheless shines a living light to all who can see, especially on this Day of Epiphany—bearing witness to the guiding Star of faith. Now, living in the darker world of money-driven and ever more escalating and unnecessary violence in sports—can we leverage any faith and advocacy that the princes and principalities of commerce can “see” this young player’s recovery—not as a green light for more greed, but a red light—time out—truly to place players’ safety and lifelong health FIRST before anything else. If not now, when?
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Yeah, you lost me at $400K.
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Something the Dems will never admit, nor the corporate media:Public sector goods and services are a far, far better deal for Americans than anything from the Private Sector -- if unshackled from corporate control. If they can be truly non-profit and democratically controlled, it's not close. Their overhead is vastly smaller, and "economies of scale" are unmatched. The public sector can also pay the rank and file much more, because it doesn't pay its executives hundreds to thousands of times more. The public sector is roughly in the 5-1 realm. Tragically, our public sector has shrunk massively since the New Deal era, accelerating especially from Reagan on. Pushed by both parties, with the GOP being more aggressive, of course. Contrary to GOP endless fearmongering, America is easily the least "socialist" nation in the developed world, which is largely why our health, safety, and welfare metrics rank so low, and our economic inequality so high. Any party that reverses this trend, updates, expands, and extends the Commons, will form the largest coalition of Americans in our history. Boiled down, pretty much everyone but the 1%.
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Kylie M Customer Service is my first bet for a profitable application of text-based AI tools. The need is there. The price is right. Risk is fairly low for organizations that run Customer Service by a script anyway. I guess we should be looking around for where to invest. I expect Alphabet will wind up providing back-end information services to third-party AI Customer Service vendors.
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Bret's example of the NYC couple with $400K shows just how out of touch he is...
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First time I went to Wo-Hop was in 1964; a group of science fiction fans who met weekly at an apartment in Sunset Park Brooklyn would ride the R train there after the meetings, and eat a meal at 3am, after standing on line waiting our turn.Nowadays, I really shouldn't eat that sort of food, and riding the subway at night is something I'd never do. But of course, Wo-Hop doesn't stay open all night any more, either.And I too stop to stare at the wonderful architecture around the city. Unlike so many who walk absorbed by their phones, I like to take in the sights and sounds around me.As always, MD is much more than the brief stories; it's the comments, a community on its own.
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Not only do the building look the same, but they are put up in disparate sites without regard to architecture. Windows that might open to an intended view in one place are now looking at a blank wall across an alley in another locale; it does not matter if you are using off-the-shelf plans to save some money. Few people expect architectural gems when affordable housing projects are involved; as noted, the appropriate key goals are clean, safe, affordable.
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